Plankbridge Stories

Stories

We've compiled some stories to get you excited about your new hut!

Lake District Shepherd's Hut Pioneers

Rob and Tabitha are Cumbrian hill farmers at the foot of Skiddaw in The English Lake District. They came to see us ten years ago with the idea of using our shepherd's huts for unusual camping huts. True glamping pioneers, we discussed three huts...

A Yorkshire Dales Delivery

A national architect and a flower farmer - what a wonderful husband and wife combination to commission a shepherd's hut for their property in The Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is always good when architects give us a brief; we've worked with...

The National Trust

We have made several shepherd’s hut for the National Trust, now in use in places such as the Lizard in Cornwall, Polesden Lacey in Surrey and Kingston Lacy in Dorset. The Lizard, for example, needed two shepherd’s huts to be used as offices for the r...

Hampton Court Palace

We love to work with institutions such as the National Trust. We were very excited when Historic Royal Palaces approached us to build a Gardener’s Hut. Hampton Court, the home of Henry VIII, is a significant landmark and such a wonderful place for us...

A self-contained annex in a garden in Sandwich Bay, Kent

A shepherd’s hut in various guises makes a superb spare room, playroom or garden office. As portable structures they usually do not require planning permission and can be taken with you when you move. We were asked to design a self-contained annex to...